Eschewing the conventions of the fashion world, the Finnish artist-designer Daniel Palillo situates his Spring& 2015 collection in an exhibition of new paintings. Paintings about the Fashion World takes on tropes of the fashion world as its subject.

As the Russian fashion-photography wunderkind shares a series of portraits with us, we sat down for a wide-ranging discussion about fashion and youth today, and why his next collection will be made up of suits.